FUN WITH ACRONYMS

US authorities in Iraq have been forced to change the name of the planned Iraqi armed forces, after learning that the orginal title they came up with created an unfortunate acronym in Arabic.

The planned force was originally entitled the New Iraqi Corps, whose initals in English produce a colourful Arabic synonym for sexual intercourse.

"I am told reliably but unanimously that that acronym is not a nice word in Arabic," a senior official from the Coalition Provisional Authority said Tuesday. "Therefore we had to come up with another word."

You know you are in it up to your ears when just naming things is hard.

That story here.